A γ dose distribution evaluation technique using the k-d tree for nearest neighbor searching

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4868-4873

  Yuan, Jiankui ^a,b   Chen, Weimin ^a  

^a Northeast Radiation Oncology Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

dose distribution analysis; gamma index evaluation; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; RADIOTHERAPY; TABLE LOOKUP; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLINICAL TREATMENT PLANS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCHING; GAMMA INDICES; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR SEARCHING; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

ALGORITHM; RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956310866     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3480964     Document Type: Article

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